Questions tagged [stack-pointer]
Anything related to stack-pointer operations. The stack pointer (SP) is a special purpose register found on most microprocessors or microprocessors cores (such as those inside microcontrollers or multicore CPUs) used to hold the address of the top of the hardware stack.
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8085 : Storing data in stack
In 8085 whatever address the stack pointer holds, we always start storing bytes from one less than this address .
Eg. If SP holds 2008H. We will store 16-bit data at 2007 and 2006H.
Why don't we store ...
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ZiLOG Z80 Stack Pointer Location in Memory?
I am trying to design a board for a Z80 based computer, and am having trouble designing the memory map. I have found that the Program Counter defaults to address ...
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When does the stack pointer get copied from flash to SP on startup?
I'm trying to track down a problem on a MKV31F256 micro. The firmware immediately jumps to the hard fault handler on startup.
I'm able to set a breakpoint on the first assembly instruction in the ...
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Main Stack Pointer(MSP) vs Process Stack Pointer(PSP)
I was reading the STM32 Programming manual and somewhere on "page 18 " i see these two kind of stack pointers. I always think that there is only ONE stack and therefore only ONE stack pointer to that ...
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bootloaders “reset memory mapping”
im looking into bootloaders and how they work this picture from application note by atmel for their SAM series bootloader "AP-Note_AT04189"
so Stack pointer and reset? Stack pointer is an address of ...
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Manually storing the stack pointer rather than using push and pop (Assembly)
What will be the instruction sequence that implements PUSH R4?
A: SUB SP, SP, #4
STR R4, [SP, #0]
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Confusion on pop for recursive assembly code
I'm confused on what happens during POP. When POP LR happens does that change the PC to the location of ...
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What happens If the interrupt occurs during the execution of HALT instruction?
Consider the following program segment on a hypothetical processor .
I have this question in my course CS201.
Suppose this processor has 32 bits Load/Store operations, ALU operations is 16 bits and ...
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Why is MSP430's Stack Poniter(SP) always alligned to even address?
While I was reading through the MSP430's User's guide, I came to know that its stack pointer is alligned to even address. (Read Pg.189 of http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/slau208m/slau208m.pdf)
Why is it so ...
